Severe Weather

March 31st - Thursday - Severe Weather

I don’t know about where you are, but here at MacDill March is leaving like a LION.

Lou and I woke up this morning to severe weather warnings and kept our eyes glued to the television for most of the morning and into the early afternoon. We had over five inches of rain in an hour with heavy winds. There were tornadoes that touched down in different locations near us with damage being done. The wind that gusted up to 80 miles per hour blew tractor trailers over on route 75 near Tampa.

The sirens sounded here at MacDill and Lou and I took the warnings very seriously, we put our slides in and secured everything we had outside and hunkered down to wait out the storm. I was fascinated with the weather stations here, they could track the storm right down to the street with the time of arrival and the severity of the storm.

I am going to post pictures that I took from the television that show how they tracked the storm. My family knew that we planned on attending the air show at Lakeland and heard there was a collapsed hanger there and were concerned we might be there. Due to Lou catching cold, we had decided not to go until the end of the week and we also knew that the weather wasn’t going to be good, so had decided to go on Friday, as it was going to be cooler and have lower humidity, thankfully, today was not the day we went. We haven’t seen the damage that was done there yet, but sounded like it might be serious, hopefully, no serious injuries.

Still no internet coverage here, so will have to post this later…..